What Was New Math In The 60S?

They’re two words that still scare teachers and schoolchildren of the 1960s: New Math. This dreaded and traumatic change in the teaching of basic mathematics had young kids pondering abstract algebra, modular arithmetic, matrices, symbolic logic, Boolean algebra, and other super-mathy stuff they might never need.

What happened to ’new math'?

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Old Math Method vs New Math. Common Core

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Tom Lehrer - New Math (Animated)

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